JimM68 wrote:
As for your plog, I did read it, or at least everything I could get at. While there are previous/next buttons on may articles, they only go back so far, not to the beginning.
I'd love to read the beginning of your story. I know it's out there, at least 6 posts that are there but I cannot figure out how to get to them.
The entire site needs some work! But this is the general idea. There is a menu bar across the top with categories. There are blog posts which is just me making general noise, Campground reviews, relocation reviews which are places we've gone to that we consider relocating to, vacation spot reviews which are towns that are more tourist oriented and maintenance and mods where I will post about any repair work or how to guides we create. That is ALL of the content of the site. The beginning was the post on Tionesta, PA. That was our first outing. In terms of the very beginning - picking an RV, selling the house, etc. I've yet to post about all of that but believe me I have plenty to say. I've just been concentrating on making actual money first and that seems to be going a bit better now that I can pay some attention to the blog again.
But I do realize the template is terrible, the comment/next previous stuff is terrible, etc. The fonts are too big (hey maybe my older demographic would appreciate that). But it's all functional and easy to maintain now and that's what's important for now. If you click on an image it brings up a nice slideshow. That and the images on the front page are not the easiest things to implement in Drupal (the blog software). It has been a learning experience.
And as for being a bully. I certainly hope you didn't mean me. Frankly I was being serious and didn't mean anything bad. A forum is the best possible thing you can run on the internet. A forum with good traffic is largely self maintaining with volunteer moderators doing the lions share of the work and ad revenues are a good supplement due to all the repeat traffic. The users really do generate all the content and you as the operator really do get to tell them how to post. It was tounge in cheek but at the same time it's reality. Spend an hour sorting and uploading pictures and pecking out a blog article that you can be pretty sure will make you very little if any money and you'll see the difference ;)
The same phenomena can be seen on a blog though when it reaches critical mass too. Users fight for you to post their (well written) articles to get a link on the front page back to their site boosting search engine rankings. The comment sections on each post can become something special in and amongst itself. Look at http://slashdot.org as a prime example of this. No work is done to run that site except some poor editing ;)
